2017 LEGO Elves Teasers Released at LEGO.com

The release of the new LEGO Elves sets for 2017 may still be a few months away, but the LEGO Elves website has started teasing the new story arc with an updated logo, new background art, and a 17-second teaser video for the upcoming Netflix series! The video has similar colors, lineart, and backgrounds to the previous episodes on Disney Channel, but the character designs are now more directly based on shapes and proportions of the LEGO mini-doll. It also features some interesting new characters, vehicles, and settings. Follow the link above to see what's new for this year!

I am LOVING the new art style for the Netflix series. I had been kind of worried that the hand-drawn art style of the episodes we'd had so far might be downgraded to some stiff, rigid CGI or something along those lines. But instead they've changed the depiction of the characters to be more in line with the mini-doll versions of them in the sets (helping to stave off complaints that the only "Lego" in the series is in the title) while somehow making the hand-drawn animation of the characters seem even MORE fluid and dynamic than before!

The video doesn't show a lot but it does show what seem to be subjects from the summer sets. Obviously, the Goblin King's castle is front and center (which will probably be the largest set of the year if tradition is any indication). But the video also shows a new elf character (probably a water elf, based on her hair and outfit) along with a new dark blue dragon, both of whom are probably likely to show in the summer. I wonder if their inclusion in this teaser indicates that we'll be getting the full main story in the first half of the year (unlike Bionicle: The Journey to One, which started with two episodes focused exclusively on the winter wave and saved the two episodes based on the summer wave for later in the year).